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Nov 21, 2019 13:15:02 #

My Canon G16 works with the same flash units as the EOS cameras. It makes for an awkward set-up as the flash is heavier than the camera but it works and it's compact.

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Feb 17, 2018 12:22:06 #

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I would like to have a survey

BebuLamar wrote:

Among the UHH members who started out using manual mode either by choice or because that was the only mode that was available at the time. How long did it take you to learn how to use it?
Among those who started out with one of the auto mode (full Auto, P, A or S) how long did it take you to learn how to use the camera in manual?
I am not Chris T but I can still ask survey question can I?

I started with an Agfa Viking f6.3 that was given to my family in 1958 by a great aunt. It was about 20 years old at the time and had no meter and no rangefinder but we did get a beginners manual with it. After studying the manual it took me one foll of film to learn to use it which is not to say that I had learned to make photographs. I still have the camera.

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Oct 25, 2017 16:50:14 #

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Prints from existing negatives, prints, slides, etc.

Thanks, much!

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Oct 25, 2017 16:46:45 #

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Aviation photography

NJphotodoc wrote:

Hi guys- need some advice. Besides my grandkids, ... (show quote)

Never done any aerial photography but back when I worked as a pilot for an FBO I flew with some pro photographers. I used a J3 Cub and an Aero Commander Lark. Also once hauled some sport jumpers in a 172. The Lark and the 172 both fly very nicely with the right doors removed and, as I recall, the doors are easily removed by pulling a couple of pins. The photographers in the right seat would have me side slip toward their subjects to reduce angular velocity. Worked very well. Of course, you'll have to have someone you trust in the left seat.

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Oct 25, 2017 16:24:36 #

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Prints from existing negatives, prints, slides, etc.

bsprague wrote:

"seeking someone/some lab who/which is still ... (show quote)

What scanner are you using? I'm not real happy with the resolution from my Epson V370. Not enough pixels to print larger than 4 x 6.

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Aug 16, 2017 17:29:46 #

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Manuals and Their Strange Language

As a former linguist in the Air Force, its my opinion that technical translators should always work from their second language into their native language. The reasons being two fold. 1. It reduces errors in grammar like the one cited by jerryc41. 2. One always understands technical jargon in his/her native language much better than any other language. I worked in technical services for Stihl for a number of years and their German technical writers made many laughable transpositions of German tech jargon into English and I learned some German jargon in consequence.
My second language is Chinese rather than Japanese but I can see a lot of Eastern cultural thinking in English translations of Japanese tech manuals.

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Jul 24, 2017 17:35:42 #

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Field tested Nikon F

cthahn wrote:

List one good reason to go back to film.

I'll give you two.

1. Its fun!

2. I haven't yet but I'm planning to dust off my Nikon F's to get back to macro work after a number of years. I have some great pre-AI macro gear and a Df body is financially out of the question. I'm also using a Mamiya C220 for macro. Its just capable of 1:1 with the 55mm lens at full bellows extension.

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Jul 3, 2017 16:53:36 #

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Pollinating Insects

As Rachel Carson said long ago, its not the insecticides themselves but the ways they are over used and misused that causes problems. The manufacturers are not entirely to blame. Herbicide use is also a large part of the problem. Butterfly larva tend to be very picky about what they eat and most of their favorite host plants are what we humans call weeds. Every time we mow or kill weeds we lose butterfly habitat. We like to plant garden flowers that attract the adult insects but we forget that they must be caterpillars first. Caterpillars need weeds. Just today I found my first Monarch larva of this season in a small milkweed patch on the edge of a wooded area near my home. Unusual for me, I didn't have a camera with me at the time.

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Jul 2, 2017 16:09:52 #

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Canon software problem

My anti-virus program (Kaspersky) deleted my Canon software apparently because it got infected some how. I have a clean installation disk but when I try to reinstall it, I get the error message that the operating system does not support the installation and I need some unspecified service pack. I'm trying to install Canon Digital Camera Solution Disk Ver.95.0 JEFIGSCRK and I'm running Windows 10 with the latest updates installed. I've tried Microsoft on-line tech support and all I get in response to my question is nonsense that has nothing to do with my problem. Do any hogs know what service pack I need and how to get it?

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Jun 30, 2017 16:33:23 #

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View From A Clearcut In Southwestern Montana

Your first shot is of a clear-cut with selected seed trees left standing. Notice how straight all the trunks are. The land owner wants more trees like that. In select cutting, certain species are removed while leaving other species in place or trees over a certain size are cut and smaller ones left to mature.

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Mar 23, 2017 16:59:27 #

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Evaluation of Canon SX20

tarsen wrote:

I have a Canon SX20 (would like a SX50 but...) and I am doing some experiments with it. The 20x shots taken at 1/2500 seem to be good. While I was out walking I had left the ISO on 1600 in P mode and have two shots I do not understand. The first one is of the red branches and seems ok and in focus. The second one of the trail and bench does not seem to have anything in focus.
I am not sure why. Any ideas would be helpful.

Tom Arsenault

More information would be helpful. A lot of things can adversely affect autofocus with my SX40. Very high humidity will do it! Movement of the subject is a possibility. Was there a breeze blowing through the vegetation? Autofocus has trouble with multiple items moving across the screen. Its very difficult for me to get a good shot through falling rain or snow or if there are fluttering leaves in the picture. Stopping action with a fast shutter speed doesn't help the focus. It helps in such situations to put the focus spot on something that's not moving like the path or the bench, focus on that and then hold the shutter button down part way to lock the focus while you recompose your shot.

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Mar 23, 2017 16:25:07 #

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I hate smartphones/selfie-sticks and tablets

The real problem is that people in general have become incivil and inconsiderate. Each of us can choose to do better.

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Mar 14, 2017 13:45:48 #

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Stupid Photographer Trick # 124

[quote=Hal81]I still have four rolls of 120 in my fridge. They have been in there for over 30 years. Your welcome to them if you ever get to my neck of the woods in PA. Im south of Allentown just out side Quakertown. About 2 miles from the Pa. turnpike.[/quot

Thanks, but that camera is a "baby reflex" that makes 4X4 cm images on 127. There is an outfit in Canada that makes short production runs of 127 film but they charge more than $30 per roll. 120 is still available new from Amazon and other places and processing is available on line as well. I have a few fresh rolls of 120 that I shoot occasionally in a Mamiya C220 that I bought last summer.

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Mar 13, 2017 17:43:41 #

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Stupid Photographer Trick # 124

Dropped the hinged double lens cap from my Yashica 44 into the gorge at Watkins Glen, NY. I was young enough and dumb enough to free climb down the cliff to get it. Wouldn't do that today but I still have the camera and the lens cap more than fifty years later. Pity I can't get film for it.

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Mar 13, 2017 17:31:39 #

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Canon Pixma Pro-100 printer

robertjerl wrote:

Red River paper has instructions for doing it: http://www.redrivercatalog.com/infocenter/tips/how-to-print-11x14-borderless-canon-inkjet-printer.html

I like to fool around with custom sizes and aspect ratios. I have no problem doing that in Photoshop Elements. At least not with custom size prints. Custom paper sizes are another matter. I think that's just me not learning to use PSE effectively, though.

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